JAEH Editors & Editorial Board

EIICHIRO AZUMA
University of Pennsylvania – Eiichiro Azuma is Professor of History, who specializes in Japanese American history, as well as transpacific Japanese migration and inter-imperial relations between the United States and Japan. He is author of Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America (Oxford 2005), and coeditor of two anthologies, including the Oxford Handbook of Asian American History (2016). His latest research monograph, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire (California, 2019), received the 2020 John K. Fairbank Prize from the American Historical Association.

JAMES R. BARRETT
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Jim Barrett, Professor Emeritus of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana (PhD, University of Pittsburgh), has worked mainly at the juncture of labor, ethnic, and urban history. His most recent books are The Irish Way: Becoming American in the Multi-ethnic City (Penguin, 2012) and From the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Race, Ethnicity and Identity in Working Class History (Duke, 2017).

RONALD H. BAYOR
Georgia Institute of Technology – Professor emeritus of History at Georgia Tech, founding editor of JAEH and past president of IEHS. Author of Neighbors in Conflict:The Irish, Germans, Jews and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941; Race and the Shaping of Twentieth Century Atlanta; Fiorello La Guardia: Ethnicity, Reform, and Urban Development; Encountering Ellis Island; Ed. The Oxford Handbook of American Immigration and Ethnicity; ed. The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America; co-ed. The New York Irish. Presented IEHS Lifetime Achievement Award, Association of Asian American Studies, Distinguished Lifetime Service Award.

BRIAN BEHNKEN
Iowa State University

JOHN BODNAR
Indiana University

CHARLOTTE BROOKS
Baruch College

DEBORAH COHEN
University of Missouri-St. Louis – My work explores questions of race, gender, imperialism, modernity, labor, and immigration for how they (re)shape nation-state formation and other political projects. My first book, Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the Postwar United States and Mexico (UNC, 2011) did this by revealing the paradoxes of modernist political project and the predicaments of transnational subjects, whereas my next solo project, “Loyalty and Betrayal,” delves into the intimacies of migratory life and its possibilities for building an autonomous transnational political subjecthood and political constituency. Currently, I am finishing a coauthored manuscript on Zorro films as a window onto historical understandings of political economy and social justice.

ROGER DANIELS
University of Cincinnati

HASIA DINER
New York University – Hasia Diner is Professor Emerita at New York University where she directs the Goldstein Goren Center for American Jewish History. Her most recent book, co-written with Carl Bon Tempo, Immigration: An American History was published in 2022 by Yale University Press.

LILIA FERNÁNDEZ
University of Illinois, Chicago – I am a historian of Latino Chicago, focusing on topics such as labor history, migration, poverty and inequality, women’s history, class politics, and social activism, among others. I am the author of Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago, which focuses on the migration and settlement of these two populations in the city’s central neighborhoods and the communities they formed. My second book project focuses on the class contours of Chicago’s Latino populations in the mid-twentieth century, their labor participation, student activism, and politics.

NEIL FOLEY
Southern Methodist University

NANCY FONER
Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY – Nancy Foner is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and the author of many books on immigration, including From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration, In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration, and most recently, One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America.

MARIA CRISTINA GARCIA
Cornell University – María Cristina García, an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, is the H.A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University. She is the author of four books and co-editor of two anthologies. Her most recent book is State of Disaster: The Failure of US Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change. García is a past president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the Society of American Historians.

GARY L. GERSTLE
University of Cambridge

DAVID G. GUTIÉRREZ
University of California, San Diego

MADELINE Y. HSU
University of Texas, Austin – Madeline Y. Hsu teaches history and Asian American Studies at UT Austin. Her books include Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (2000) and The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (2015). She co-edited A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 (2019) and Vol. II of the Cambridge History of Global Migrations (2023).

ANNA JAROSZYŃSKA-KIRCHMANN
Eastern Connecticut State University – Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann is Distinguished Professor of History and CSU Professor, Emerita, Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, CT. Kirchmann published extensively on various aspects of Polish American experience, including post-World War II political diaspora, ethnic press, and immigrant letter-writing. She is past president of the Polish American Historical Association, and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Polish American Studies. Her current research project is a book on the history of Polish American foodways.

VIOLET M. JOHNSON
Texas A&M University

WALTER KAMPHOEFNER
Texas A&M University

RUSSELL KAZAL
University of Toronto – Alan M. Kraut is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and a Non-resident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute. A past president of the Organization of American Historians and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, he specializes in U.S. immigration and ethnic history and the history of medicine and public health in the United States. Among his prize-winning books are Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace” (1994). and Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (2003). A recent article on anti-Asian prejudice during the COVID-19 pandemic, “The Other Pandemic” was featured on the History News Network.

KEVIN KENNY
New York University – Kevin Kenny is Glucksman Professor of History at New York University. He teaches and writes about American immigration and global migration. His books include Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (1998), The American Irish: A History (2000), Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom (2009), Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (2013), and The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2023).

ALAN M. KRAUT
American University – Alan M. Kraut is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and a Non-resident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute. A past president of the Organization of American Historians and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, he specializes in U.S. immigration and ethnic history and the history of medicine and public health in the United States. Among his prize-winning books are Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace” (1994). and Goldberger’s War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader (2003). A recent article on anti-Asian prejudice during the COVID-19 pandemic, “The Other Pandemic” was featured on the History News Network.

MADDALENA MARINARI
Gustavus Adolphus College – Maddalena Marinari has published extensively on immigration restriction and immigrant mobilization. She is the author of Unwanted: Italian and Jewish Mobilization Against Restrictive Immigration Laws, 1882-1965 and a co-editor of A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 and Whose America? U.S. Immigration Policy Since 1980. Along with Erika Lee, she has also co-edited a special issue of the Journal of American History on the centennials of the passage of the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924.

TIMOTHY J. MEAGHER
The Catholic University of America

PYONG GAP MIN
Queens College, CUNY

NATALIA MOLINA
University of Southern California

EWA MORAWSKA
University of Essex

FRASER OTTANELLI
University of South Florida

BARBARA M. POSADAS
Northern Illinois University – Barbara M. Posadas is College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at Northern Illinois University where she taught from 1974 to 2015. She is the author of The Filipino Americans (1999) and numerous articles on Filipino American history, particularly in the Midwest. She served as president of IEHS in 2009-2012. She received the Association for Asian American Studies Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 and the IEHS Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019.

TOURÉ REED
Illinois State University

DAVID ROEDIGER
University of Kansas

VICKI RUIZ
University of California, Irvine – Vicki L. Ruiz is Distinguished Professor Emerita of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine. She is the author of Cannery Women, Cannery Lives and From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth- Century America. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is past president of the AHA and OAH and a recipient of a IEHS Lifetime Achievement Award. President Barack Obama honored Ruiz with the National Humanities Medal.

AMRITJIT SINGH
Ohio University – Amritjit Singh is Langston Hughes Professor Emeritus of English and African American Studies at Ohio University. Currently, he is a Visiting Fellow at South Asia Institute, U of Texas-Austin. Past President of MELUS and SALA, he received the MELUS Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 and the SALA Distinguished Achievement Award in Scholarship in January 2014. Singh has held Research Fellowships at Yale (ACLS, 1983-84) and Harvard (NEH, 1991-92) and served as Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University, New York University, and University of California at Berkeley. He is deeply interested in pedagogical approaches that combine History and Literature and has published widely in African American, South Asian, Postcolonial, and Migration/Immigration Studies, Singh has lectured or taught widely in Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has had Fulbright Professorships at universities in Berlin, Germany (2002), Graz, Austria (2007), Alexandria, Egypt (2010), and New Delhi, India (2014-15).  Singh’s many books include HThe Novels of the Harlem Renaissance (1976, 1994); Memory, Narrative and Identity (1994); Conversations with Ralph Ellison (1995); Memory and Cultural Politics (1996); Postcolonial Theory and the United States (2000); The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman (2003); Interviews with Edward Said (2004); Revisiting India’s Partition: Essays on Culture, Memory, and Politics (2016); and Critical Perspectives on Chitra Divakaruni: Feminism and Diaspora (2022).

JORDAN STANGER-ROSS
University of Victoria – For the past decade, my scholarship has focused on the internment of people of Japanese heritage in the Americas and the Pacific during the Second World War. This work has been unusual for its involvement of many partners and collaborators, inside the academy and beyond. Currently, I am Director, with Audrey Kobayashi, of an international partnership, Past Wrongs, Future Choices, with participants in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and the United States, examining this topic from transnational and comparative perspectives.

M. MARK STOLARIK
University of Ottawa – M. Mark Stolarik was Professor and Chairholder of the Chair in Slovak History and Culture at the University of Ottawa from 1992 to 2022. He retired as Professor Emeritus on July 1, 2022. A graduate of the University of Minnesota (Ph.D., 1974), he taught American history at the Cleveland State University from 1972 through 1976, then was head of the Slavic Program at Canada’s National Museum of Man (1976-1978) and served as President of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia from 1979 through 1991. He also served as editor of the Immigration History Newsletter from 1988 through 1991.

LEIGH ANN WILSON
University of Massachusetts Global – Dr. Wilson is Associate Professor of History & Communications. Her research interests include US History, Latin American History, immigration, education, and the history of communications. Since 1998, she has taught classes in History, Communications, Liberal Studies, English, and Humanities. She began teaching online in 2003 and has been fully online since 2013. She contributed to UMG’s Competency-Based Education program and developed and oversees all of the History classes and selected Communications and Humanities classes. She was the School of Arts and Sciences’ Faculty of the Year for 2015 and 2021.

JUDY TZU-CHUN WU
University of California, Irvine – Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is a professor of History and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She also serves as faculty director of the Humanities Center, Associate Dean in the School of Humanities, and the inaugural director of the Center for Liberation, Anti-Racism, and Belonging (C-LAB). Her most recent book, Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress (New York University Press, 2022), is a collaboration with political scientist Gwendolyn Mink.